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Recent Examples of streaked
Chloe Veltman, NPR, 23 Feb. 2024
The method yields images that are streaked and cracked, with surfaces that are alternately riven and raised.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
At Lever House, the plaza pavers were pitted and smashed, travertine was streaked, glass walls had clouded, and steel panels looked like they’d been used for slingshot practice.
—Curbed, 9 June 2023
The pictures in the first set, shot outside under cloud-streaked skies, tend to be more expansive.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
The setting was a streaked, bulbous frozen face on the fractured lower section of the Glacier du Tour, the northernmost ice sheet in the French portion of the Mont Blanc massif.
—Simon Akam, Outside Online, 27 Nov. 2019
The streaked grime — melting snow — characteristic of the bricks of Chicago in winter in winter, can be seen here even on the faces.
—Kathleen Rooney, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2019
The exhausted passengers emerge from a sleek convoy of silver and red-streaked buses, looking confused and disoriented as they are deposited ignominiously in this tropical backwater in southernmost Mexico.
—Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2019
Scientists have come up with a mind-bending explanation for the origin of a strange, streaked mountain on the dwarf planet Ceres, a 600-mile-wide body that orbits the sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
—David Freeman, NBC News, 22 June 2019
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But despite the gaping hole at its center, the composition clearly depicts a harbor scene with boats and buildings set against a streaked white and blue sky.
—Chloe Veltman, NPR, 23 Feb. 2024
The method yields images that are streaked and cracked, with surfaces that are alternately riven and raised.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
At Lever House, the plaza pavers were pitted and smashed, travertine was streaked, glass walls had clouded, and steel panels looked like they’d been used for slingshot practice.
—Curbed, 9 June 2023
The pictures in the first set, shot outside under cloud-streaked skies, tend to be more expansive.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
The setting was a streaked, bulbous frozen face on the fractured lower section of the Glacier du Tour, the northernmost ice sheet in the French portion of the Mont Blanc massif.
—Simon Akam, Outside Online, 27 Nov. 2019
The streaked grime — melting snow — characteristic of the bricks of Chicago in winter in winter, can be seen here even on the faces.
—Kathleen Rooney, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2019
The exhausted passengers emerge from a sleek convoy of silver and red-streaked buses, looking confused and disoriented as they are deposited ignominiously in this tropical backwater in southernmost Mexico.
—Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2019
Scientists have come up with a mind-bending explanation for the origin of a strange, streaked mountain on the dwarf planet Ceres, a 600-mile-wide body that orbits the sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
—David Freeman, NBC News, 22 June 2019
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“Streaked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/streaked. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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